John Ruskin Quotes
Anything which elevates the mind is sublime. Greatness of matter, space, power, virtue or beauty, are all sublime.
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My public in Guadalajara and the people from Guadalajara, they've supported me since day one.
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One Direction is the main thing I'm doing and I'm 100 per cent dedicated to the group.
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Comedians have to write to survive because you don't get cast for your beauty.
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Twenty20 is cricket on speed. In an era of hectic lifestyles and falling attention spans, it gives spectators more drama and intensity in three hours that they would get from a whole-day match. And even though it is a heady cocktail of money, entertainment and media, at its core it is cricket.
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When I had my first child, I started to try and make fresh food for him daily, and I became frustrated with the amount of work - and time - involved in making baby food at home.
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I was about 10 when I got into nuclear science. That was when that spark hit me. It took a few years of research, but when I was 14, I produced my first nuclear-fusion reaction.
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Dressing for yourself and not a man is definitely something I advocate.
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I am not musically educated yet. I don't read - I make my own language that works for myself. But I play by ear.
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To the extent that you can find ways where you're making predictions, there's no substitute for testing yourself on real-world situations that you don't know the answer to in advance.
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It puzzled me that other people hadn't found out, too. God was gone. We were younger. We had reached past him. Why couldn't they see it? It still puzzles me.
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But then, even with sex, I'm more in the school of less is more in movies.
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My heroes are the camera crew and the electricians. They work such long hours.
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There's something universal about illness... Whether you like it, at some level all patients are saying, 'Daddy, Mommy, help me, tell me it's going to be alright.'
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Negligence is the rust of the soul, that corrodes through all her best resolves.
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The snow leopard is absolutely magnificent. It represents really what endangered species are all about.
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The government will always tell you that it wants low inflation. The real issue is the horizon over which to bring inflation down.
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I love Damien Hirst. I respect his work a great deal, and I am happy that the polka dots I started using have become a symbol of love and peace around the world with everybody joining hands to use them in this way.
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If you die in an elevator, be sure to push the Up button.
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I like to go to bed around 10 P.M.
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My mind is just as open as it ever was, professor. But it's a scientific mind, and there's no place in it for superstitions.
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I really can't describe what my stand-up is like - people see it and they say it's like that, or it's like this, and that's really up to them, that's fine, but I don't sit around all day analysing it. I just try and enjoy a show and interest myself because if I don't do that then I won't interest anybody else.
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How can finite man commune with an infinite God? To both Christians and Jews, God himself has made that possible by irrupting into the temporal world. To Christians, God became man in the Incarnation; to Jews, the God that spoke out of the fire on Mount Sinai gave his Torah.
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I knew that I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed in the ghettos without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today - my own government.... There is something strangely inconsistent about a nation and a press that would praise you when you say, 'Be nonviolent toward Jim Clark,' but will curse and damn you when you say, 'Be nonviolent toward little brown Vietnamese children!' There is something wrong with that press.
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Anything which elevates the mind is sublime. Greatness of matter, space, power, virtue or beauty, are all sublime.
